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SARAH F. MILLS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, y CALIFORNIA.

Letters .Patent No. 88,321, dated March 30, 1869.

lAPPARATUS FOR COMPOSING- lAND EXHIBITING- GROUPS OF CARD-PICTURES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making partof the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, SARAH F. county ofSan Francisco, State of California, have invented a Gard-Point and Support for Grouping Photographs in an Upright Position; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are sutlcient to enable any person skilled in the art 0r science to which it most nearly appertains, to make and 'use rm y said invention or improvement without further invention or experiment. i The object of my invention is to provide'an improved device for supporting in an upright position the photographic pictures exhibited in the anthro-photoscope, or photoscopic table, or any other instrument on which the figures are cut from the card and placed in an upright position on a floor.

The modes of supportingV the pictures now in use are- First, gluing and pasting the foot of the iigures immediately to the door. This is objectionable on account of their liability to curl, and the diculty of removing them without marring either the pictures or the floor.

Second, fastening a piece of thinl metal on the back of the figures, the point projecting below the feet, and inserting the lower end of this slip of metal in grooves already c utrin the floor, or in holes previously punctured with another dat-pointed tool. The objections to this modeare, tirst, the grooves or holes mar the appearance of the door when removed; second, glue, paste, or mucilage will not adhere with any tenacity to metal, and it becomes necessary to envelop the metal either in cloth or adhesive plaster, both clumsy and inconvenient; third, the pictures are liable to curl, unless the metal be extended the entire length of' .the ligure, when the weight tends to disturb the upright position, unless pressed very tightly into the grooves, or holes prepared for it; fourth, the cards prepared in this manner have not sucient stiiness to bear pressing into the door without griping both metal and card and when the pictures are grouped there is not suiiicient space between the pictures to allow taking hold of them at their point.

What is desirable in a cardgsupport for this purpose is, first, that it shall have suiicient strength and stiffness, combrined 'with lightness, to enable the lady who groups the pictures to take hold ofthe top of the card and press the point firmly into the door, however closely the figures may be set; second,.that the point be so MILLS, of the city and fine and sharp as to easily enter the Wood or cork floor without any previous punction or grooving, and leave as little impression as possible when removed.

My invention 'consists in making the body of this support of a dat strip of Wood, pasted or glued in the back of the card, and fastening a small, sharp, metal pin rmly on the lower end, to enter the floor.

To more fully illustrate my invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, of which Figure 1 is a side sectional view.

Figure 2 is a top view.

A is the iloor upon which the figures are caused to stand, and

B is one of the figures.

In order to furnish a support to the iigure, and give it a point to insert into the door, I take a thinV piece of wood, or any other stiff and light substance to Vwhich glue er paste will adhere, and give it such a shape as best to support the entire figure without being visible when looked at from the point A. The bottom of this support Gis a small common brass pin, or piece of small wire or metal, a, which is .made sharp at the point, and secured to the bed of the support so that it will not turn or pull out, by bending its upper end at right angles, and either inserting it into the wood or allowing it to lie flat, as shown. A strip of thin cloth or gauze is then partly pasted or glued over the surface of the support, to hold the pin more firmly in its position, and the whole pasted to the back of the ligure. The bottom of the support` may be bevelled, as shown, in order that the picture may be set at an angle to the floor.

Bythe use of this device, in their position, and can be sired, without leaving any mark of their former location.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. Attaching to card-pictures a support, composed partly of woodor other non-metallic substance, glued or pasted on the back, and partly of a metal point, for entering the door and sustaining it upright, substantially as herein described.

2. As an article of manufacture, partly of wood or other light and which will adhere to glue or paste, metal point for entering the floor.

Witnesses: SARAH F. MILLS. [1.. s.]

. J. L. BOONE,

A. T. DEWEY.

the pictures are easily set a card-support, stiff substance, and partly of a removed as often as de- 

